List of English words without rhymes Puns

Note: I know EME had different vowel sounds than Modern English, of course. So I'm not saying literally "enough rhyming with now" as in [iˈnaʊ], I mean "enough rhyming with whatever "now" sounded like back then".

I only semi recently finally learned the importance of accents for stress in Spanish and how to pronounce diphthongs, and while it seems like the way your mouth naturally moves when correctly pronouncing the —io at the end of ‘rudimentario’ or ‘unicornio’ isn’t that different than how I did it before, there’s a huge difference stress-wise between ‘unicornio’ (since -io = one syllable, stress on -corn”) and unicornío (stress on I.)

I’ve noticed where the stress is on cognates like ‘euforia’, ‘filosofía’, ‘biología’, ‘democracia’ etc is not super consistent. Curious if there are any hidden patterns I’m not aware of on this.

(Usual disclaimer should never assume cognates are 1:1, research to make sure not semantic differences etc.)

Does a list such as this exist? I've tried to find one with no avail.

Like the title said I'm looking for this specific nursery rhyme. I have found it in German and it is called wie viel Hörner hat der Bock

This is the German rhyme:

Buffele buffele Hörnerbock
wie viel Hörner hat der Bock
wie viel Finger stehn?
Im Rythmus der Silben wird dabei auf den Rücken eines Ratenden geklopft und dabei der Text gesagt. Nun muß geraten werden, mit wie vielen Fingern man geklopft hat (oder auch „rate wie viel stehn!“ und dann raten, wie viele Finger man zeigt)
Wenn es falsch war:

Hättste *** geraten
wärst Du nicht gebuffelt worn
(*** = richtige Anzahl der Finger)

Oder, wenn es richtig war:

Hasts geraten
Schinkenbraten
da lauf hin
und wenn Du noch mal wieder kommst
kriegste noch e paar nin.

The problem is my grandpa is a 4th or 5th generation American with ancestry going back to Germany, so he did not speak German and I know he spoke English to me when saying this rhyme. The English version is called "How many horns has the buck" and can be found in the link.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20522058?seq=1

This one is somewhat closer, however it is more so in the sense of the funny words at the beginning. I think he said "jitterbug or humble bug or bumbly bug" twice at the beginning and then there was something that I do not remember at at all, and then he would ask how many fingers he was holding up. Do you know of any English versions other than this one? I have tried looking, but all I could find was the original poem and this English poem which were hard to find already. Thank you for any help you can give me.

Alternatively, where can I find a database of English words with enough metadata that I can generate this list myself?

I have a Excel list of 2000 English words picked from online books. To shorten the learning process I want to avoid duplicates and derivatives as much as possible (For example: I only want to learn "surprise" from the list containing "surprisingly", "surprised", "surprises",...). I tried some formulas in Excel but they don't work in any situations.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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> "What is the word 'sport' without 'fan'? There's no excitement. There's no crying. There's no joy. There's no back-and-forth. There's no rhyme or reason that you want to go on the road and just dethrone the home team because of their fans and vice versa.

> "Like, that's what also brings out the competitive side of the players to know that you're going on the road in a hostile environment and yes, you're playing against that opponent in front of you, but you really want to kick the fans' ass too.

> "So, to get back on the floor, I would love it. I'm not going to sit here and say nothing. Like if it's get out there and get back on the floor 5-on-5 ... but like, we can do that in scrimmages. Let's just go to each other's practice facility, put out a camera, just scrimmage and live stream it. But until the fans can come back ... I just don't know how we can imagine a sporting event without fans. It's just, it's a weird dynamic."

I woke up young again today, I was a child again.

My entire life was only a dream.

I no longer had a future and my true love was gone.

I lost my life and had to repeat everything again.

I was younger but I still had all my memories.

However, I was alone stuck in the past.

I knew what would happen in the future, but I did not care.

I only wish to see my beloved wife again.

I want to live with her again by my side, as we did after we got married.

In the past she lived far away.

I was only a boy when she was already a woman.

I can foresee the future and I can change its course.

I could choose to seize power and great wealth,

but I only want to repeat my poignant life's course

that lead me to sweet happiness.

The woman of my dreams does not recognize me.

Will I have to repeat my whole life again?

I cannot live alone like this for long.

Wake me up from this dream.

My worst story is this- I was on the school bus, minding my own business. A few seats away I hear someone call my name. I whip my head around and say, "Yes?"

Turns out they only sneezed.

Achoo.

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Hi all,

First of all, Happy New Year! I wish you all the best and hope that this coming one will be better than the two previous ones. Here's a gift to keep up the spirit of those making the best out of the situation.

In short, this is my modification to the TOPIK 6000 most frequent Korean words list which takes the most common words used in publications and internet articles, etc..

For those that do not know, TOPIK is short for "Test of Proficiency in Korean"; the organization that devises the Korean language proficiency test, equivalent to the JLPT and TOEFL.

As promised in my last set of posts, I worked a bit on the list to correct the English translations, but I am open to further feedback.

To avoid the triggering the filters, I will post the link in the comments.

About me:

I am a non-Korean, non-learner who has learned Japanese for over a decade who wanted to get what this mysterious language called Korean was about, understand some of the basics and come out slightly wiser.

Last November, I discovered Hangul and managed to learn how to read it fairly easily. A list of words was a good way to practice reading with some actual examples while knowing what they mean.

This what caused me to come across the TOPIK list.

View on Korean writing system:

Should be clear by now and this list should help those that share my view, namely that Korean writing makes less sense and leaves more room for ambiguity with the Hanja removed.

The decision was taken following the Korean war by both the communist dictatorship in the North under Kim Il Sung and the non-communist dictatorship in the South under Park Chung-hee for mostly nationalistic reasons against the advice of much of Korean academia.

Before this, the so-called Korean mixed script was used which employed Hangul for native Korean words and Hanja for Sino-Korean words.

Hangul has an interesting local history and is concise, allowing it to be easily picked up. I love how simple it is, and recognize that orthography has been amended to make sure it keeps at least some consistency with its original roots in Hanja.

It was however never meant to completely supplant Hanja which had been a part of Korea for over a millennium. Aside from over 50% of the vocabulary, Korean names, place names, expressions, cultural concepts were not just written in Hanja but were themselves Sino-Korean words.

Essentially a large part of the identity of the Korean language was ripped out for shortsighted,

We already have villagers, illagers, and pillagers. Why stop there? There are plenty more words in English that end in -ill. Each of them deserves their own mob.

Billager: Goes around and charges you emeralds for using the village's light, water, or furnaces. If you don't pay he takes your house.

Alternative: Disguses self as zombie villager to avoid being killed by Zombies.

Brazillager: Sells soccer balls and cocoa beans.

Chillager: Same as the iceologer, except its passive (aka "chill"), and sells you potions that help you survive cold biomes.

Dillager: Sells you Dill. Can be added to certain foods to increase saturation.

Distillager: Makes and sells alcoholic beverages, which give you nausea the morning after you consume them.

Fillager: Enraged by holes in the ground left by creepers. Fills them in with the correct block.

Grillager: He will cook your raw food for you if you come to his backyard party.

Hillager: Runs to the highest accessible point currently rendered.

Jillager: Hosts Villager Wipeout.

John Stuart Millager: Randomly shows up and starts talking about philosophy at the most inopportune times

Killager: Tries to kill anything in its FOV.

Krillager: Sells you krill, which you can use to breed fish.

Millager: Lives in new generated structure, a mill, and sells you certain items such as paper.

Nillager*: New name for nitwits.

Phillager: Would have the skin of some guy named Phil.

Quillager: Sells you ink sacs and feathers for your book/quill.

Red Pillager: Doesn't attack you like other pillagers, but tells you hard truths you didn't want to know.

Refillager: Refills any water or lava removed from its place in the village.

Rillager: At constant war with the Sontarans (Sorry, obscure Doctor Who reference)

Shillager: Shills for other villagers, tries to convince you to buy their stuff.

Skillager: Actually helps defend villages during a raid using its PVP skills.

Spillager: Sells you potions at great prices, but there's always a 50% he will spill them and you get nothing.

Stillager: Never moves.

Tillager: Till